Reappointing Ben

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters.

Video of my session at Netroots Nation doesn’t seem to be available anywhere, which means that I can’t watch it to see how it went. However, I got this from a friend who watched it live:

I thought you might enjoy the attached screen capture. You couldn’t see it, but throughout there were ads on the screen, most of which keyed off your name. We got ads for Canon toner DRUMS and oil DRUMS and all sorts of musical DRUMS and don’t you just love the way “targeted” advertising works on the Internet? I’m watching Kevin Drum so it follows that I might be in the market for a good oil drum.

Ain’t the intertubes great? On a more substantive note, not a single one of the panelists was opposed to reappointing Ben Bernanke. Not even Dean Baker! Et tu, Dean? This suggests to me that Bernanke is a shoo-in for winning a second term. If you can’t even get a bunch of liberals at Netroots Nation to oppose him, what are the odds that anyone else is going to lead the fight?

Fact:

Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and the wealthy wouldn’t fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do.

Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation so we can keep on doing the type of journalism that 2018 demands.